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Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar
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Rachel Zucker speaks with Kaveh Akbar about his first full-length poetry collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf. They talk about recovery, addiction, Ellen Bryant Voigt’s unpunctuated line, teaching, his writing process for poetry or prose, the hutzpah and/or cluelessness that enabled him to reach out to established poets, the founding and process of running Divedapper.com (Kaveh’s interview site), the art of interviewing, using poetry to press the pleasure button, social media, white poets writing about whiteness, writing to delight, writing with compassion, his poem “Heritage” (about Reyhaneh Jabbari), the potential violence of erasure poems, and the intersection of power and poetry.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 40
Books by Kaveh Akbar
Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017)
Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode
Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Headwaters (W.W. Norton, 2014)
The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
Robert Olen Butler’s Severance (Chronicle Books, 2008)
Lauren Oliver’s ROOMS (Ecco, 2015)
Tom Phillips’ A Humument (Thames and Hudson, 2017)
Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony (Black Sparrow Press, 2015)
Major Jackson “A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black”
Other Relevant Materials
All Up in Your Ears (Jonathan Farmer, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, francine j. Harris and Kaveh Akbar)
Kaveh writing about his poem “Heritage” on Poetry Society
Transcription of the final voice message of Reyhaneh Jabbari
Eula Biss talking about opportunity hoarding on the podcast The Longest Shortest Time
103 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on February 29, 2024 07:08 (). Last successful fetch was on January 26, 2024 09:54 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 190754335 series 1443177
Rachel Zucker speaks with Kaveh Akbar about his first full-length poetry collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf. They talk about recovery, addiction, Ellen Bryant Voigt’s unpunctuated line, teaching, his writing process for poetry or prose, the hutzpah and/or cluelessness that enabled him to reach out to established poets, the founding and process of running Divedapper.com (Kaveh’s interview site), the art of interviewing, using poetry to press the pleasure button, social media, white poets writing about whiteness, writing to delight, writing with compassion, his poem “Heritage” (about Reyhaneh Jabbari), the potential violence of erasure poems, and the intersection of power and poetry.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 40
Books by Kaveh Akbar
Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017)
Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode
Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Headwaters (W.W. Norton, 2014)
The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
Robert Olen Butler’s Severance (Chronicle Books, 2008)
Lauren Oliver’s ROOMS (Ecco, 2015)
Tom Phillips’ A Humument (Thames and Hudson, 2017)
Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony (Black Sparrow Press, 2015)
Major Jackson “A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black”
Other Relevant Materials
All Up in Your Ears (Jonathan Farmer, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, francine j. Harris and Kaveh Akbar)
Kaveh writing about his poem “Heritage” on Poetry Society
Transcription of the final voice message of Reyhaneh Jabbari
Eula Biss talking about opportunity hoarding on the podcast The Longest Shortest Time
103 episodes
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